But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
Peter Davison
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- I like poems that are little games.
- My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
- I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
- Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
- Poetry is composing for the breath.